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May 1918. The Allies, the White Guards and the Rights SR Party join forces and plunge Russia into full-scale civil war. Their key asset: The Czechoslovak Legion.
Check out the text version, for images, citations, edits and credits, here: https://1919review.wordpress.com/2021/09/08/05-the-czechoslovak-legion/
Below are audio credits. These pieces do not belong to me but appear under fair use or are in the public domain.
Music from Alexander Nevsky by Sergei Prokofiev.
Intro speech by Winston Churchill, 1954
Tsar to Lenin (1937, dir Herman Axelbank)
Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia (1943, dir. Frank Capra)
'Dancing in the Dark', written and performed by Bruce Springsteen, Columbia Records, 1984
'exactly what we didn't want to happen'- sampled from Brass Eye (Pres. Chris Morris, Dir. Tristram Shapeero), Channel 4, 'Paedogeddon' (2001)
May 1918: a German invasion triggers a second revolt of the Don Cossacks and the Volunteer Army.
Check out the text version here, for the latest updates, citations, images, etc: https://1919review.wordpress.com/2021/08/26/03-revolt-in-the-south/Audio credits:
I don't own the rights to the audio samples listed below. All audio used is either in the public domain or features here under fair use.
Blackadder Goes Forth, Ep. 3 'Major Star', Dir Richard Boden, 1989
Tsar to Lenin, dir Herman Axelbank, 1937
Battle on the Ice from Alexander Nevsky by Sergei Prokofiev, 1938
Under the Mongolian Yoke, from Alexander Nevsky by Sergei Prokofiev, 1938
And Quiet Flows the Don, Dir Sergei Gerasimov, 1957
Cossack's Song, performed by Red Army Choir, date not recorded
Revolution Under Siege 03: The SR Time BombJanuary 1918. The brief inglorious life of the Constituent Assembly. Introducing two forces which will play a key role in the war: the Left and Right SRs.
Check out the text version, for images, citations, edits and credits, here: https://1919review.wordpress.com/2021/09/01/04-the-guard-is-tired/
Music from Alexander Nevsky by Sergei Prokofiev.
Dialogue from Lenin: The Train (1988, Damiano Damiani)
I don't own the above items, they appear here under fair use or are in the public domain
An older version of this episode was read by a computer voice - this one is read by yours truly.
Officers and Cossacks are shocked and confused by the Russian Revolution. But they rally and begin a war to overthrow the new regime.
Text: https://1919review.wordpress.com/
Credits: I do not own the music or clips featured here.
They are in the public domain or else fair use.
Sergei Prokofiev, 'Battle on the Ice' from Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Fall of Eagles, John Elliot, Stuart Burge, 1974, Episode 12
Anastasia, Dir Don Bluth & Gary Goldman, 1997
Ten Days that Shook the World, documentary, 1967, Orson Welles; Aleksandrov, Granger, Murphy, incl footage from Eisenstein
And Quiet Flows the Don (novel) Mikhail Sholokhov, trans Stephen Garry, read by W Kandinsky [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y5RB...]
And Quiet Flows the Don (film), dir Gerasimov, 1957-58 Groucho Marx, 'Groucho's Story of Resigning from Friars Club', Mike del Caribe (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkB5h...)
'Rasputin' by Boney M, 1978. Hansa, Sire, Atlantic
An older version of this episode was read by a computer voice - this one is read by yours truly.
The workers of the former Russian empire are forced to take up arms to defend their revolution.
Credits:
I do not own the music or clips featured here. They are in the public domain or else fair use.
Sergei Prokofiev, 'Battle on the Ice' from Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Intro samples audio and video from 'Quiet Don' dir. Sergei Gerasimov (1957-8)
Rich and poor dialogue from Fiddler on the Roof, dir. Norman Jewison (1971)
War monologue from Doctor Zhivago, dir. David Lean (1965)
February Revolution from Fall of Eagles, Episode 12 (1974, Elliot & Burge, BBC)
Lenin speech from Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Episode 13 dir. Simon Wincer (1993)
Footage from Eisenstein's October, via Orson Welles' Ten Days that Shook the World (1967)
In 1919, like today, Ukraine was the scene of a terrible war. But Ukraine was a very different place, and that was a very different war. Part 1 of an explainer on the various factions that contended for power in Ukraine in 1919
Music:
Sergei Prokofiev, 'Battle on the Ice' from Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Red Army Choir, 'Tachanka'
Polish Traditional Song, _POLKA MUZYKA_ _LA MUSIQUE POLONAISE POPULAIRE_ _POLISH FOLK SONG_ _POLNISCHE VOLKSMUZIK_.mp3 - from Archive.com
Intro samples audio from 'Quiet Don' dir. Sergei Gerasimov (1957-8)
Audio sampled:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81QS5sf8p5Y Putin says Modern Ukraine was created by communist Russia TRT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zveUHZCvrzc Why is Vladimir Putin so obsessed with Ukraine? Guardian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzK-quAvjcI Ukraine Advances in Kharkiv Region as Russia Retreats Bloomberg markets and finance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75f_TXmhnHE Ukraine: Mariupol civilians continue to be evacuated Telesur English
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBP-3jULm88 LATEST UPDATES: Ukraine recaptured cities of Izium and Kupiansk Al Jazeera
The vast region of Siberia is under the control of a fascinating, diverse and horrifying array of White warlords. This episode gives you a run-down on them, before following Kolchak as he goes on the offensive against the Soviet Republic.
Music:
Sergei Prokofiev, 'Battle on the Ice' from Alexander Nevsky (1938)
'Field recording of Mongolian Throat Singing, recorded on May 17, 2017 at Three Camel Lodge, Bulgan Soum, Gobi Desert, Mongolia.' https://archive.org/details/Mongolia20170517. Performers not named. Taped by Jeremy Tregler (2017)
Intro samples audio from 'Quiet Don' dir. Sergei Gerasimov (1957-8)
Audio sampled:
Dialogue by Richard Jordan, from Dune (1984), dir. David Lynch
Narration on Kolchak by Max Eastman, from Tsar to Lenin, dir. Herman Axelbank (1937)
'Here there be monsters' - Geoffrey Rush, from Pirates of the Carribean, dir Gore VErbinski (2005)
Score by Maurice Jarre, from Lawrence of Arabia (1962), dir David Lean
As 1918 draws to a close, revolution in Germany means new opportunities and new challenges for the Reds. Final episode of Series 1.
This series previously went under the name ‘Battle for Red October.’ You’ll still see that in the artwork and in the recordings for a while until I get a chance to edit everything.
Check out the text version, for images, citations, edits and credits, here: https://1919review.wordpress.com/2021...
I do not own the music or clips that feature in this podcast, they appear here under fair use.
Music by Sergei Prokofiev, from Alexander Nevsky
End music - 'Varshavianka,' performed by the Red Army Choir. Unlike in Episode 09, this time I did get the right song - this is the Polish - Russian - Spanish revolutionary song mentioned in the podcast.
Audio transitions and dialogue from The Fall of Eagles, Episode 13. (1974, Elliot & Burge, BBC)
Two White regimes emerge on either side of the Ural Mountains. One wants a democracy, the other a military dictatorship. Only one will survive 1918.
This series previously went under the name ‘Battle for Red October.’ You’ll still see that in the artwork and in the recordings for a while until I get a chance to edit everything.
Note: there is a mistake in the quote attributed to Avksentiev at 09:40. It should read ‘it will choke on us,’ not ‘we will choke on it’!
Check out the original blog posts for images, citations, etc: Audio Credits for Episode 09: Behind White Lines https://1919review.wordpress.com/2021...
I do not own the music or clips that feature in this podcast, they appear here under fair use
Guitar music and ‘Stand and be true’ quote (Ruby Dee) from Stephen King’s The Stand, dir. Mick Garris, 1994
Intro music by Sergei Prokogiev – Alexander Nevsky
Sea sound effects from Admiral, dir Andrei Kravchuk, 2008
‘Supreme Leader’ dialogue from Star Wars: The Last Jedi, dir. Rian Johnson, 2017
End music - ‘Song of the Plains,’ performed by the Red Army choir. (This is not, as you may have guessed from the title, the Partisan song about the taiga – but if anyone has a link to that song, post it in the comments on the blog or Youtube.)
August 1918: Kazan falls to the Whites. Can a ragged demoralised Red Army pull itself together and retake the city?
Check out the original blog posts for images, citations, etc: https://1919review.wordpress.com/2021/11/18/08-the-fight-for-kazan/
This series previously went under the name ‘Battle for Red October.’ You’ll still see that in the artwork and in the recordings for a while until I get a chance to edit everything.
Audio Credits for Episode 08: The Fight for Kazan
I do not own these clips, they appear here under fair use
Music from Alexander Nevsky by Sergei Prokofiev – ‘Battle on the Ice’
Dialogue by Richard Burton, from The Assassination of Trotsky (1972) dir. Joseph Losey
Commentary from Tsar to Lenin (1937) dir. Herman Axelbank
Revolution strikes in Russia. Those who made it - the working class - must now take up arms to defend it.
This series previously went under the name ‘Battle for Red October.’ You’ll still see that in the artwork and in the recordings for a while until I get a chance to edit everything.
Check out the text version, for images, citations, edits and credits, here: https://1919review.wordpress.com/2021...
On the audio version, the music and transitions are as follows:
Music: From Alexander Nevskyby Sergei Prokofiev – ‘Battle on the Ice’
Battle sounds: From All Quiet on the Western Front, 1979, Dir. Delbert Mann. Youtube.com
Speech 1: From Dialogue from Fall of Eagles, Episode 07 (1974, Elliot & Burge, BBC) S
peech 2: From Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Roger Sloman as Lenin. Youtube.com
I don't own the above items, they appear here under fair use or are in the public domain
January 1918. Four thousand armed men had gathered by the Don River to begin a counter-revolution that would shake Russia for years to come. This week we’re going to take a closer look at the White Guards, those who rose up in arms against the October Revolution. Then we will examine how things went down when they had to face the Red Guards for the first time.
This series previously went under the name ‘Battle for Red October.’ You’ll still see that in the artwork and in the recordings for a while until I get a chance to edit everything.
Check out the text version, for images, citations, edits and credits, here: https://1919review.wordpress.com/2021...
Music from Alexander Nevsky by Sergei Prokofiev.
Intro from Anastasia (1997, dir Don Bluth and Gary Goldman)
Dialogue from Fall of Eagles, Episode 12 (1974, Elliot & Burge, BBC)
Transitions from Battlefield 1: In the Name of the Tsar (2017, Dev. Dice)
I don't own the above items, they appear here under fair use or are in the public domain
Twenty-four years before the Battle of Stalingrad, the same town becomes a frontline in the Civil War. One Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili arrives in town as the Don Cossacks advance.
This series previously went under the name ‘Battle for Red October.’ You’ll still see that in the artwork and in the recordings for a while until I get a chance to edit everything.
Check out the original blog posts for images, citations, etc: https://1919review.wordpress.com/2021/10/23/07-tsaritsyn/
Audio Credits for Episode 07: How Tsaritsyn became Stalingrad
Intro music: Slavonic March by Sergei Prokofiev, Paul Van Kempen https://archive.org/details/78_slavon...
Train sounds from Fall of Eagles, Episode 12 (1974, Elliot & Burge, BBC)
Transition (Description of Tsaristyn) from Battlefield 1: In the Name of the Tsar (2017, Dev. Dice)
Stalin dialogue from Stalin, 1992 HBO movie, dir Ivan Passer. Robert Duvall, Julia Ormond, John Bowe. Youtube.com
Battle sounds: From All Quiet on the Western Front, 1979, Dir. Delbert Mann. Youtube.com End music from Alexander Nevsky by Sergei Prokofiev – ‘Battle on the Ice’
I don't own the above items, they appear here under fair use or are in the public domain
An assassination and an armed revolt in the streets of Moscow trigger the final break between the Bolsheviks and the Left SRs.
Check out the text version, for images, credits, edits and citations here: https://1919review.wordpress.com/2021...
This series previously went under the name ‘Battle for Red October.’ You’ll still see that in the artwork and in the recordings for a while until I get a chance to edit everything.
Audio credits:
There clips are used without permission from the authors under fair use. This applies to the other episodes as well.
Music from Alexander Nevsky by Sergei Prokofiev.
'Peasants' dialogue from Fall of Eagles, Episode 06 (1974, Elliot & Burge, BBC).
Gunshot sounds and Congress speech from The Sixth of July (1968, dir. Yuli Karasik) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgB_x...
Shakespearean interlude: Ben Whishaw in Julius Caesar (2018) at the Bridge Theatre. William Shakespeare. Dir Nicholas Hytner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgIK0...
A short episode giving my take on the question of chronology. TLDR? It's politics, man. Politics.
This series previously went under the name ‘Battle for Red October.’ You’ll still see that in the artwork and in the recordings for a while until I get a chance to edit everything.
Check out the text version, for images, citations, edits and credits, here: https://1919review.wordpress.com/2021...
Music from Alexander Nevsky by Sergei Prokofiev.
Transition from Platoon, dir Oliver Stone, 1984
I don't own the above items, they appear here under fair use or are in the public domain
May 1918. The Allies, the White Guards and the Rights SR Party join forces and plunge Russia into full-scale civil war. Their key asset: The Czechoslovak Legion.
Check out the text version, for images, citations, edits and credits, here: https://1919review.wordpress.com/2021...
This series previously went under the name ‘Battle for Red October.’ You’ll still see that in the artwork and in the recordings for a while until I get a chance to edit everything.
Music from Alexander Nevsky by Sergei Prokofiev.
Battle sounds from Reds (1981) Dir. Warren Beatty
Intro speech by Winston Churchill, 1954 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SukZg...
Transition narrative by Max Eastman, from Tsar to Lenin (1937, dir Herman Axelbank)
I don't own the above items, they appear here under fair use or are in the public domain
January 1918. The brief inglorious life of the Constituent Assembly...
This series previously went under the name ‘Battle for Red October.’ You’ll still see that in the artwork and in the recordings for a while until I get a chance to edit everything.
Check out the text version, for images, citations, edits and credits, here: https://1919review.wordpress.com/2021...
Music from Alexander Nevsky by Sergei Prokofiev.
Dialogue from Fall of Eagles, Episode 12 (1974, Elliot & Burge, BBC)
I don't own the above items, they appear here under fair use or are in the public domain
May 1918: a German invasion triggers a second revolt of the Don Cossacks and the Volunteer Army.
This series previously went under the name ‘Battle for Red October.’ You’ll still see that in the artwork and in the recordings for a while until I get a chance to edit everything.
Check out the text version, for images, citations, edits and credits, here: https://1919review.wordpress.com/2021...
Audio credits: Music from Sergei Prokofiev, Alexander Nevsky
Clip from Blackadder Goes Forth, e3 'Major Star', dir Richard Boden
Opening clip from Tsar to Lenin, 1937, dir. Herman Axelbank
I don't own the above items, they appear here under fair use or are in the public domain
Here's the text version:
https://1919review.wordpress.com/2021/08/05/00-introduction/
This series previously went under the name ‘Battle for Red October.’ You’ll still see that in the artwork and in the recordings for a while until I get a chance to edit everything.
Check it out for edits, citations, images, credits, etc
Music from Alexander Nevsky by Sergei Prokofiev.
I don't own the above piece of music, it appears here under fair use or are in the public domain